Two key players in the MLS playoffs were instrumental in helping their teams in the first leg of their respective aggregate-score series this past weekend. Despite their contributions, though, they and their teammates know full well that come January, they won't return to their current clubs for the preseason, but instead will be with other teams in other countries.
Things are a little tight at the top of the English Premier League, and it's making people nervous. Only seven points separate the top seven teams, and the pack could further congest if Aston Villa, Manchester City and Arsenal win their games in hand.
CARSON, Calif. -- The Los Angeles Galaxy weren't celebrating Friday's big victory too much, perhaps taking a cue from their coach, Bruce Arena.
"I would like to think that I can be up there with the best players [in MLS], but who knows? ... That's what I'll be hoping for: not just to be the best player in the league, but to be one of the best teams in the league." -- David Beckham, May 2007
Our weekly dose of Major League Soccer quick takes, plotlines to watch and Power Rankings.
The star athlete fields questions from readers about living with Posh and life after soccer
CARSON, Calif. -- Depending on your criteria, this is the second or third attempt to fit David Beckham into a club and league where, for two years, success has eluded everyone involved. The puzzle has proved more complicated than anyone -- perhaps most of all, Beckham himself -- ever expected. Can it finally work?
To: David Beckham From: Couch Slouch Re: To live and die in L.A.
Before we talk to the soccer superstar, we want to hear from you
You can't blame coach Bruce Arena, Los Angeles Galaxy players and the rest of the organization if they'd rather not talk about David Beckham. No doubt they've got plenty of problems dealing with the here and now rather than what happens later. But rather soon that deal will come around.
Two key players in the MLS playoffs were instrumental in helping their teams in the first leg of their respective aggregate-score series this past weekend. Despite their contributions, though, they and their teammates know full well that come January, they won't return to their current clubs for the preseason, but instead will be with other teams in other countries.
Things are a little tight at the top of the English Premier League, and it's making people nervous. Only seven points separate the top seven teams, and the pack could further congest if Aston Villa, Manchester City and Arsenal win their games in hand.
CARSON, Calif. -- The Los Angeles Galaxy weren't celebrating Friday's big victory too much, perhaps taking a cue from their coach, Bruce Arena.
"I would like to think that I can be up there with the best players [in MLS], but who knows? ... That's what I'll be hoping for: not just to be the best player in the league, but to be one of the best teams in the league." -- David Beckham, May 2007
Our weekly dose of Major League Soccer quick takes, plotlines to watch and Power Rankings.
The star athlete fields questions from readers about living with Posh and life after soccer
CARSON, Calif. -- Depending on your criteria, this is the second or third attempt to fit David Beckham into a club and league where, for two years, success has eluded everyone involved. The puzzle has proved more complicated than anyone -- perhaps most of all, Beckham himself -- ever expected. Can it finally work?
To: David Beckham From: Couch Slouch Re: To live and die in L.A.
Before we talk to the soccer superstar, we want to hear from you
You can't blame coach Bruce Arena, Los Angeles Galaxy players and the rest of the organization if they'd rather not talk about David Beckham. No doubt they've got plenty of problems dealing with the here and now rather than what happens later. But rather soon that deal will come around.
The soccer stud launches new Motorola phone campaign
CARSON, Calif. -- It's MLS preseason here in Southern California, and there are several things to report:
I don't believe any of the financials being bandied about in the wake of David Beckham's extended loan deal. But I never really believed he would, or could, earn $250 million during his original five-year MLS deal, either.
The sigh of relief at the resolution of the David Beckham loan drama may only be temporary. That's because the deal to have Beckham return to Major League Soccer to play with the Los Angeles Galaxy at the conclusion of the Serie A season seems like nothing other than a perfunctory stint to tie up a few loose sponsorship ends.
The soccer hunk subleases the movie star's home in Italy's Lake Como
At a family function over the weekend -- the xxth birthday of my mom's best friend (I am forbidden to supply specifics) -- I got a few questions to the effect of, "So, what are you writing about in the soccer world?"
"I've said I want to stay here," he said in Italy as he awaits outcome of contract talks
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The Los Angeles Galaxy and AC Milan have until Friday to finalize a transfer agreement for David Beckham, or Major League Soccer will not sign off on any deal, league commissioner Don Garber told reporters on Wednesday.
Are we about to witness the fourth coming of David Beckham? Last week, the iconic midfielder said he wanted to extend his stay at AC Milan, possibly making it a permanent move. If he is able to stay, it could again, at age 33, mark another renaissance of a career often previously written off.
Lawyers are reportedly working on a deal for Becks to leave LA Galaxy
David Beckham vowed last week that he would return to the Los Angeles Galaxy from his two-month loan to AC Milan in time for the start of the 2009 MLS season next March. "My commitment is still to the Galaxy, and that's not changed," Beckham insisted when asked if L.A.'s 2-2 season-ending tie with FC Dallas on Oct. 26 would be his last game with the Galaxy.
The soccer star explains why he wants to relocate – temporarily! – to Europe
He may pal around with Tom Cruise, but the soccer stars swears he has no plans to become an actor
Is it me, or did David Beckham miraculously lose his tan this past week? That famous face suddenly looks withered and the wrinkles around his eyes more pronounced than they did when he first joined the Los Angeles Galaxy about a year-and-a-half ago.
Trying to make sense of this David Beckham to AC Milan story? Here's a humble attempt at some answers.
How close was David Beckham to joining AC Milan instead of the Los Angeles Galaxy? Extremely close, he says. But things worked out for the best: Becks has taken Major League Soccer by storm, even if the hype machine from last summer has died down. The media attention may be less, but Beckham has appeared in every game for the Galaxy and has contributed to their league-leading attack.
A British dramatist hopes to tell the soccer star's life story with "powerful, gospel-like rock"
The soccer star will appear in the final ceremony and kick off London's 2012 games
OAKLAND, Calif. -- The soap opera that is the Los Angeles Galaxy just gets weirder and weirder.
Does the soccer world care if the MLS can run its winning record against foreign opposition in the All-Star Game to 5-0?
"Everyone has made us feel so welcome," he says. "I can't imagine being anywhere else"
The soccer star bares his famous abs for the crowd in D.C. after losing the weekend match
I ran into an acquaintance on a flight from Columbus to New York this weekend, and he said, "I hear Beckham scored an amazing goal."
DeGeneres tries to get the athlete to go topless during an appearance on her show
MLS players salaries for the 2008 season made available by the MLS Players Union reveal that Los Angeles' David Beckham ($6.5 million guaranteed), Chicago's Cuauhtémoc Blanco ($2.67 million) and D.C. United's Marcelo Gallardo ($1.87 million) are the league's top earners.
The soccer star says his mother was the first to call him after he posed in his briefs
Playing in France, he makes his 100th appearance for England's national team
The soccer stud calls presenting an award to the hero "a highlight moment for me"
For a tournament set in a fabulous Hawaiian setting, there's much of the Pan-Pacific Championship that's not to like.
LOS ANGELES -- Ah, preseason. A chance to play "name that camp invitee," watch grown men stretch their groins together and start the David Beckham watch again.
David Beckham's trip to West Africa made a profound impression on the soccer star.
David Beckham's first season with the L.A. Galaxy may have been a disappointment – but he's got big plans for 2008.
Twelve months is a long time in soccer. In 2006, Italy demonstrated the international game's ability to triumph in adversity. A year later, the club game fought back and reasserted itself over national-team concerns.
Question: When is a fiasco not a fiasco? Well, the answer has to be, "when it's David Beckham." His much-ballyhooed, incredibly hyped arrival in the U.S. to play for the Los Angeles Galaxy managed to take in, simultaneously, both ends of Kipling's equation: both triumph and disaster.
They've only lived in the U.S. for four months, but David Beckham says his kids are already starting to sound like natives.
Sports Illustrated will announce its choice for Sportsman of the Year on Dec. 3. Here's one of the nominations for that honor by an SI writer. For more essays, click here.
Victoria Beckham's transition from wife and mother to Posh Spice has created a stir at home.
He's buff. He's beautiful. He's ... nearly naked?
The night was quite chilly (by Southern California standards, at least). But that didn't stop more than 5,500 fans from coming out to support David Beckham's L.A. Galaxy and a slew of soccer-loving celebs like Superman Returns's Brandon Routh and Without a Trace's Anthony LaPaglia for their charity match Sunday.
As if getting a new home weren't enough, the family featured on this Sunday's episode of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition also got something extra – a meeting with their favorite soccer player, David Beckham.
Hollywood has been enamored of David Beckham since his arrival in L.A. in July. Now, they get to take a crack at him on the soccer field.
David Beckham is "incredibly disappointed for" the Los Angeles Galaxy, which failed to make the playoffs this year, he says in a new post on his blog.
If David Beckham feels the need – the need for speed – he has an offer on the table from his good pal Tom Cruise.
David Beckham's first season with the Los Angeles Galaxy ended quietly on Sunday night, with his team falling short of the playoffs and its megawatt superstar failing to take a single shot on goal in his five games played.
David Beckham, remember him?
The most talked-about gimpy ankle in L.A. seems to be improving, as David Beckham has revealed on his blog that he hopes to suit up for the Galaxy's game against Red Bull New York on Thursday night.
David Beckham says his children love America and his wife has been warmly welcomed here.
Time to mend it like Beckham.
CARSON, Calif. -- It was an inaugural SuperLiga final that had just about everything. A surreal last-second bicycle-kick equalizer. A goalkeeper (to say nothing of the re-injured David Beckham) fighting back post-game tears. A money penalty-taker failing to convert the trophy-winning spot kick. And, not least, a press conference carpeted by F-bombs from (who else?) a mild-mannered Canadian.
Just six hours after landing from London, David Beckham was at the center of a mid-field scuffle in Los Angeles.
The smallest dinosaur could reach speeds of nearly 40 miles per hour and even the lumbering Tyrannosaurus rex would have been able to outrun most modern-day sportsmen, according to research published on Wednesday.
David Beckham prefers his native soil - literally.
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- Five things we learned from the electric 5-4 victory by the New York Red Bulls against the Los Angeles Galaxy here on Saturday:
David Beckham scored his first goal Wednesday as an L.A. Galaxy player.
In her first blog update since becoming a resident of Los Angeles less than a month ago, Victoria Beckham has already started to talk like a Valley Girl.
After a frustrating start to his American career because of a nagging ankle injury, sexy soccer star David Beckham has finally made his league debut - and flashed a bare chest to cheering fans.
Despite playing for only about 13 minutes in his first game for the Los Angeles Galaxy soccer team on Saturday, David Beckham helped draw a record 1.5 million viewers to the TV broadcast.
Forget Les Deux and Teddy's: Hollywood's hottest celeb hangout Saturday night was the Home Depot Center in nearby Carson, Calif., as Katie Holmes, Eva Longoria, Mary-Kate Olsen and others showed up to watch David Beckham's American soccer debut with the Los Angeles Galaxy.
CARSON, Calif. -- Sixteen minutes, 12 touches -- and 19 cameras beaming every gimpy stride to a worldwide audience.
CARSON, Calif. -- Phil Anschutz, the reclusive billionaire owner of the Los Angeles Galaxy, hasn't given an interview in more than 30 years. But when I asked his top lieutenant, Tim Leiweke, last month if Anschutz had said anything to him lately about his soon-to-arrive superstar, David Beckham, the three-word response came instantly:
CARSON, Calif. -- The circus is starting to take its toll on the Los Angeles Galaxy.
Cuauht�moc Blanco is not David Beckham. Blanco is not posing shirtless with his almost-nude wife next to him. The Chicago-bound standout is not an A-list star whose fame transcends soccer, nor will his looks grab the attention of teenage girls and soccer moms. But he too is coming to America.
Hot on the stiletto heels of wife Victoria Beckham's NBC special, David Beckham is about to get his own TV show.
If you were going to see your first game at Old Trafford, the fabled Manchester United home known as the Theater of Dreams, you couldn't do much better than the night of April 23, 2003, when Man United met Real Madrid in a Champions League showdown for the ages.
David Beckham's highly anticipated American soccer debut for the Los Angeles Galaxy may not happen Saturday as scheduled, the Los Angeles Times reports.
CARSON, Calif. -- As David Beckham took a seat in one of the luxury suites at Home Depot Center, moments after walking off the confetti-littered field, a wide smile came over his face when he was asked about the auspicious day he chose to be introduced as the newest member of the Los Angeles Galaxy.
CARSON, Calif. -- As he begins his New World Adventure in U.S. soccer, David Beckham can't help but smile when the childhood memories of his first American sojourn come tumbling back into his consciousness. But here's an unexpected twist: Beckham's initial taste of the U.S. had a distinctly Mexican-American flavor.
The David Beckham brand hits the U.S. market this month.
The most telling comment about David Beckham came from the late George Best, Beckham's most illustrious predecessor in the No. 7 jersey of Manchester United.
David Beckham's return to the English national team for Friday's game against Brazil and next Wednesday's vital Euro 2008 qualifier in Estonia has dominated the headlines this week. The setting couldn't be more fitting: The return of the glamour boy of English football in a glamour friendly against Brazil at the new Wembley Stadium.
MADRID, Spain -- A funny thing happened here on David Beckham's path to European soccer irrelevance.
If Major League Soccer were to pinpoint the moment it hit its target audience, it would be around 12:45 a.m. EST on Jan. 17.
It's been two weeks, and David Beckham's move to a Galaxy far, far away is still the talk of the town in England. But which town?
David Beckham is a very fine soccer player, but with apologies to Macbeth, "Nothing in his life (becomes) him like the leaving."
It has been almost a week since the Los Angeles Galaxy drew the biggest headlines in Major League Soccer history by signing David Beckham to a blockbuster five-year contract.
Very few people have heard of the Most Serene Republic of Excelsior, but those familiar with South American island nations may know that its annual governmental budget is $950,000. Next season David Beckham will earn that every week.
British soccer star David Beckham says he wants to become a part of American history. The 31-year-old former captain of the English soccer team has signed a five-year, reported $250 million deal with the Los Angeles Galaxy of Major League Soccer.
A photographic portrait of David Beckham at London's Royal Academy of Arts has been removed from display after being defaced by graffiti.
The past two weeks have not been easy for British soccer star David Beckham.
Cross Brad Pitt with Pele, and you'll know why England is atwitter over soccer star David Beckham and his ex-Spice Girl wife, Posh. With Becks off to Spain, the pair are spilling ink worldwide. Wha...
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